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“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”


-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one”
“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself”

-Mark Twain


“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”
 “No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before”
“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed”

-Johnathan Swift

“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”

-Calvin and Hobbes